Crossings and Dwellings

Restored Jesuits, Women Religious, American Experience, 1814-2014

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Call for Papers: “Emotional Objects: Touching Emotions in Europe 1600-1900. From the website: Emotional Objects aims to stimulate interdisciplinary debate concerning what objects can tell us about emotions, and what emotions contribute to material culture. In particular, it will explore the way the materiality of objects – the very stuff of which they were made – performed emotional work. In the course of the last decade, an emotional turn and a material turn have been identified as key events in historical scholarship. Nevertheless, the emotions and material culture have rarely been considered in combination. Emotional Objects aims to bring them together. We welcome papers from museum professionals and scholars of emotion, material culture, anthropology, archaeology, art, design, geography, gender, history, literature, textiles and other relevant disciplines that shed light on the emotional power of objects.

Call for Papers: “Emotional Objects: Touching Emotions in Europe 1600-1900.

From the website:

Emotional Objects aims to stimulate interdisciplinary debate concerning what objects can tell us about emotions, and what emotions contribute to material culture. In particular, it will explore the way the materiality of objects – the very stuff of which they were made – performed emotional work. In the course of the last decade, an emotional turn and a material turn have been identified as key events in historical scholarship. Nevertheless, the emotions and material culture have rarely been considered in combination. Emotional Objects aims to bring them together.

We welcome papers from museum professionals and scholars of emotion, material culture, anthropology, archaeology, art, design, geography, gender, history, literature, textiles and other relevant disciplines that shed light on the emotional power of objects.

Crown of thorns

Reliquary

Regina coeli

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AUGUST 5, 1849: James Van de Velde, S.J., Bishop of Chicago, establishes the Orphan Asylum for children left destitute by Chicago’s cholera epidemic. The Sisters of Mercy—who had first arrived from Ireland just six years earlier— assume charge of the orphanage. Account reproduced from James J. McGovern and Patrick Augustine Feehan, Souvenir of the Silver Jubilee in the Episcopacy of His Grace, the Most Rev. Patrick Augustine Feehan, Archbishop of Chicago (1891). From an article posted at Chicago Life:     Cholera reached Chicago as a consequence of the 1832 Black Hawk War.  Driven from Illinois, Chief Black Hawk, leader of the Sauk and Fox tribes, led a party from Iowa back across the Mississippi. The Illinois Governor dispatched the Illinois militia and requested several thousand federal troops who arrived on ships from Buffalo commanded by General Winfield Scott (future leader of American troops during the Mexican–American War).  This move was probably an overreaction since Black Hawk’s “hostile war party” of only 1000 included 600 women and children, bearing seeds for planting crops.      The Illinois militia quickly dispatched Black Hawk, ending forever the Native American threat to the area. However, General Scott’s troops, who proved unnecessary, brought cholera from Buffalo to Fort Dearborn and hundreds died just before Chicago was incorporated in 1833.    The continuing threat of cholera was impetus for the creation of the Chicago Board of Health in 1835. Despite this, subsequent cholera epidemics broke out in 1845 (traveling up the Mississippi and brought by workers on the Illinois & Michigan Canal), and at least four other times before 1873, killing thousands.    Those cholera epidemics were also responsible for Chicago’s first hospitals, several small temporary structures built in the 1840’s and 1850’s designed to isolate cholera and smallpox victims. Inadequate for Chicago’s burgeoning population, they were replaced by Mercy Hospital, the oldest continuously running hospital in Chicago.    Today, orphanages, homes for parentless children, are a little remembered historical footnote. But they were once prominent institutions housing thousands in 19th Century Chicago. The first Chicago orphanage, the Chicago Orphan Asylum and the Catholic Orphan Asylum, began as a result of an 1849 cholera epidemic, which left many children without parents. Social concerns caused orphanages to disappear eventually but the eradication of cholera was one reason they were no longer necessary.  

AUGUST 5, 1849: James Van de Velde, S.J., Bishop of Chicago, establishes the Orphan Asylum for children left destitute by Chicago’s cholera epidemic. The Sisters of Mercy—who had first arrived from Ireland just six years earlier— assume charge of the orphanage.

Account reproduced from James J. McGovern and Patrick Augustine Feehan, Souvenir of the Silver Jubilee in the Episcopacy of His Grace, the Most Rev. Patrick Augustine Feehan, Archbishop of Chicago (1891).

Mercy hospital

From an article posted at Chicago Life:

    Cholera reached Chicago as a consequence of the 1832 Black Hawk War.  Driven from Illinois, Chief Black Hawk, leader of the Sauk and Fox tribes, led a party from Iowa back across the Mississippi. The Illinois Governor dispatched the Illinois militia and requested several thousand federal troops who arrived on ships from Buffalo commanded by General Winfield Scott (future leader of American troops during the Mexican–American War).  This move was probably an overreaction since Black Hawk’s “hostile war party” of only 1000 included 600 women and children, bearing seeds for planting crops.
     The Illinois militia quickly dispatched Black Hawk, ending forever the Native American threat to the area. However, General Scott’s troops, who proved unnecessary, brought cholera from Buffalo to Fort Dearborn and hundreds died just before Chicago was incorporated in 1833.
   The continuing threat of cholera was impetus for the creation of the Chicago Board of Health in 1835. Despite this, subsequent cholera epidemics broke out in 1845 (traveling up the Mississippi and brought by workers on the Illinois & Michigan Canal), and at least four other times before 1873, killing thousands.
   Those cholera epidemics were also responsible for Chicago’s first hospitals, several small temporary structures built in the 1840’s and 1850’s designed to isolate cholera and smallpox victims. Inadequate for Chicago’s burgeoning population, they were replaced by Mercy Hospital, the oldest continuously running hospital in Chicago.   

Today, orphanages, homes for parentless children, are a little remembered historical footnote. But they were once prominent institutions housing thousands in 19th Century Chicago. The first Chicago orphanage, the Chicago Orphan Asylum and the Catholic Orphan Asylum, began as a result of an 1849 cholera epidemic, which left many children without parents. Social concerns caused orphanages to disappear eventually but the eradication of cholera was one reason they were no longer necessary.

Cholera report 1849

 

Cholera burials

Raised by the Church

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MUNDELEIN VOICES: THE WOMEN’S COLLEGE EXPERIENCE, 1930-1991. A book of essays describing Mundelein College edited by Ann M. Harrington and Prudence Moylan that was published in 2001.  The book was published by Loyola Press which described the book as,  “Mundelein Voices is the first history of Mudelein College, the last women’s college in Illinois. Written by alumnae and faculty, this spirited collection of autobiographical essays captures the history, the memory, and the story of Mundelein College. This is a story of great change in times of turmoil, offering rich commentaries on social change, ecumenism, gender studies, the church in Chicago, as well as changes in religious orders and the institutions they created.” (http://www.loyolapress.com/mundelein-voices-the-womens-college-experience-.htm)

MUNDELEIN VOICES: THE WOMEN’S COLLEGE EXPERIENCE, 1930-1991.


A book of essays describing Mundelein College edited by Ann M. Harrington and Prudence Moylan that was published in 2001.  The book was published by Loyola Press which described the book as, 

“Mundelein Voices is the first history of Mudelein College, the last women’s college in Illinois. Written by alumnae and faculty, this spirited collection of autobiographical essays captures the history, the memory, and the story of Mundelein College. This is a story of great change in times of turmoil, offering rich commentaries on social change, ecumenism, gender studies, the church in Chicago, as well as changes in religious orders and the institutions they created.” (http://www.loyolapress.com/mundelein-voices-the-womens-college-experience-.htm)

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